The Risk Management Exchange (RMX) was a

futures exchange A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or ...

based in

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which filed for insolvency in February 2009. It was founded as the Warenterminbörse Hannover (Commodity Exchange Hannover, WTB) in 1998 by the

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and a group of financiers. It was Germany's first fully electronic commodity exchange. In December 2005 WTB and Dekrebo Kredit Börse merged and the new group was renamed RMX. As of January 2007, current agricultural commodities traded areRMX web site, below * Hogs * Piglets *

Potatoes The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

(three kinds; 'Table', 'European Processing' and 'London') *

Wheat Wheat is a group of wild and crop domestication, domesticated Poaceae, grasses of the genus ''Triticum'' (). They are Agriculture, cultivated for their cereal grains, which are staple foods around the world. Well-known Taxonomy of wheat, whe ...

The contract on brewing

barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

is suspended as of 30 April 2008. Recyclable paper contracts are currently suspended (as of 2005).{{fact, date=October 2021

Rapeseed Rapeseed (''Brassica napus'' subsp. ''napus''), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturall ...

was traded in the past.

References

External links

Risk Management Exchange web site
(Dead link - 4 January 2010) Commodity exchanges Companies based in Hanover Futures exchanges Financial services companies established in 1998 Financial services companies disestablished in 2009 German companies disestablished in 2009 German companies established in 1998